The Best American Short Stories 1989

Fenstad’s Mother / Charles Baxter
Customs of the country / Madison Smartt Bell
Living to be a hundred / Robert Boswell
Black hand girl / Blanche McCrary Boyd
Kubuku Rides (This is it) / Larry Brown
Ralph the Duck / Frederick Busch
White angel / Michael Cunningham
Flowers of boredom / Rick DeMarinis
Edie: a life / Harriet Doerr
Concert party / Mavis Gallant
Why I decide to kill myself and other jokes / Douglas Glover
Disneyland / Barbara Gowdy
Aunt Moon’s young man / Linda Hogan
Displacement / David Wong Louie
Management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee
Meneseteung / Alice Munro
What men love for / Dale Ray Phillips
Strays / Mark Richard
Boy on the train / Arthur Robinson
Letter writer / M.T. Sharif.
Selected from US & Canadian magazines by Margaret Atwood with Shannon Ravenel; with an introduction by Atwood.